Jets place Mark Sanchez on short-term injured reserve

Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez will miss more than half of the regular season with the shoulder injury he suffered in the preseason.

The Jets have announced that Sanchez has been placed on injured reserve, designated for return.

That means Sanchez can return to practice in six weeks, and can return to the active roster in eight weeks. The Jets’ bye is Week 10, so the earliest Sanchez could play would be Week 11, at Buffalo on November 17.

Realistically, it’s hard to see Sanchez getting much action on the field even when he is eligible to return. The Jets are widely expected to move on from Sanchez after this season and make Geno Smith their starter going forward, so there would be no reason to take Smith off the field and put Sanchez on the field late in the season.

With Sanchez on injured reserve, he will not count toward the Jets’ 53-man roster. The Jets have two quarterbacks, Matt Simms and Brady Quinn, behind Smith on the depth chart.

I don’t get why they’d waste that slot on him… Frankly I wouldn’t believe he was above Simms on the depth chart. It’s not like a back-up RB who might still give you 10 carries per game and actually play.

I believe Sanchez was doing his best to get cut with the “I won the competition” quote. Now that he’s on short term IR… It makes it difficult for his trade stock.. As if the $8.25 mil wasn’t enough of an obstacle. Jets should have just put him on season ending IR and eliminated the late season distractions

I actually feel sorry for the guy. He really worked his but off this off season on his own dime. I know he would have started over Geno, and would have had a pretty good season if Rex was not Rex and throwing him to the wolves with the third string OL.

The only consolation for Mark is that Rex will be in the unemployment line at the end of the year too.

this could be the dumbest move of the rex ryan era, they just used thier one short term designation on a player who will never see the field. jest fans better hope no one else gets injured. they should have put him on regurlar IR and put an ened t the sanchez era

@alltee…. Good point, they would never have used him in the first place, although Rex may have been dumb enough to want to, Idzik, the GM would have raised hell with that move, and I’m sure Rex realizes he’s on a short leash anyway, so he would have listened to Idzik.

That’s a waste. Sanchez will never wear the Jet uniform again. They could have used that designation for a player at another position. Tannenbaum was definitely a disaster as GM, but this new guy seems just as clueless.

Sanchez must be stupid. He needs to have his shoulder surgery now so he can rehab in the off-season and hopefully sign with another team next season as their back-up QB. Instead, he chose to try rehabbing his shoulder now which will only delay his surgery and that will mean he will not be able to play next season.

The Jets are stupid too. First, for playing Sanchez in the 4th quarter of the meaningless Snoopy Bowl behind 3rd string players. Second, for putting Sanchez on short-term IR instead of just cutting him now. Third, for not firing Ryan now since its obvious he does not know how to be an effective NFL head coach.

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